Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-06-17
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How a Sufferer from Quinsy Hurt a D1c-
tors Professional Feelings.

How a Sufferer from Quinsy Hurt a D1c.
tors Professional Feelings.
There are good features about that
throat disease called quinsy. You can
never mistake it for the smallpox. and
you never have suspicion that you
NAV have fallen from the roof OF
third-story building and broken forty
or more bones in your body. You GO
to bed feeling in excellent spirits and
willing tp pay one hundred and twenty
cents on the dollar Soon after mid
night-as soon after as the ailment can
make it convenient-you wake up with
a horrible back and hard chill. |
You needn't fatter yourself that you
are coming down with diptheria, ty-
phoid fever or some other disease
which W i'll cause your friends to anx-
iously quire if you have made your
will and own lot in Elmwood. You
are simply booked for fourteen DAYS
wrestle with a common, one-horse at
fair, and the sooner you settle down to
it the better for all concerned
You may gargle all the gargles ever
invented, but the throat grows worse.
For two or three days the doctor can
place the handle of a spoon on your
tongue and get sight of what is be.
hind, but you suddenly discover in your
mad career that you have ''shut your
head" The jaws have taken great
liking to each other and the doctor has
to quit. Then you'll turn to flax-seeo
poultices. 1t doesn't do any good as
anybody can see, but you'll try it.
Further more, you'll get hot compound
of hops and vinegar and try steaming.
That never helped anybody, but it's
fashionable to try it. All the glands and
cords and tendons from the ear down
10 the shoulder begin to tighten up, the
crevice between your teeth closes at last,
and there you are. If some butcher cart
hasn't run over you and Knocked
some of your teeth out it won't be any
use to Try soups and gruels. If you've
got two or three places where the Cruel
can she hk in you'll presently wish you
hadn't. Every time you swallow you
are lifted seventeen inches off the chair,
and it, a health lift which you get
tired of after three or four attempts.
The pther day when my eyes were
swollen nearly shlx, my jaw ''sot
every gland and cord as sore as a boil
and my wind-pipe nearly closed, the
doctor looked me over and made little
speech. shall remember his every
word for the next hundred years. he
said:
well, something has got to be done
Your throat has got to be lanced. I've
been expecting for day or two that i
would come to this"
And he lay back in his chair anC
licked bis chops-yes, sir, smacked hi
lips like boy eating a rich p lum!
Eyes, I'll be up after DINNER" he con
tinued, signing heavily to think h
wasn't equipped then. You'd bette
lie down and prepare yourself. "
| t,mbed into bed, wondering
Providence wouldn't take him off dur
; ing the forenoon, and slept to dream
that was on dissecting table an(
u twelve medical students were carvin.
; away On my body. Providence spare'
the doctor He didn't even have nal
row escape He was on hand soon afte
linner smile of satisfaction on hi
| face, and he was followed by meek
: looking young man whom he intro
;. duced as medical student.
II Now said the doctor, "don't g'
e excited. We shall first chloroforl
y your
Z tried to groan, but it w as only
: Wheel something like a summer
gale blowing into an old oyster can.
.'And then we shall wedge your jaw
r. apart! Here are the pine wedges to
it. 1t will. of course, be a couple
1t weeks before the cords and glands g
e over the effect, but there's no way
d getting around it.
it tried to groan some more, and IL
lie doctor laughed He said it reminde
t, him OF the sigh of tired horse as
l. lay down to rest.
lie Didn't have time to sharpen tn
lie lance at home" he went on, as
ct begun to hone it on strop. "f yo
er were j woman you might be squeamis
ell but as it is you won't care.
ID expect to have to lance it in about thr
places. 1t ought to relieve you at one
but it will be some days before the Gu
heal up. Say, James, get him in tn
80 rocker. Did you bring the chlorofor
III up? Pour it on this handkerchief al
a. hold 1t to his nose until you see that
nc is gone. Where's the wedges and hal
~ mer? Now come with your hand"
Something down my throat gave
&c throb and twist and bust, open fl
eS my jaws, and out came the quinsy W
rush.
"You-you wretches!" | gasped, fiji
III ing my voice for the first time in f
o' days.
III Now, James. just see thereP
claimed the doctor, in tones of ming
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